#smolnet — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #smolnet, aggregated by home.social.
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geminiprotocol.net domain name has expired, the registrar, namecheap, invites the owner to renew it.
I hope it will be renewed by the original owner.
http://geminiprotocol.net/
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Un manifeste Offpunk
https://ploum.net/2026-08-03-offpunk_manifesto.html
Traduction du Offpunk Manifesto de @ideiasdechirico
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#offpunk 3.2 have been released a few days ago but I realize that the features I’m the proudest of is the "reply" feature, introduced in Offpunk 3.0.
I use it nearly every day to "comment" on my favorite blog posts or #gemini gemlogs
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What's up on the #smolweb? July 2026 roundup
New blog post !
July 2026 was a quietly busy month on the smolweb. The #Geminispace keeps growing toward 3,500 active capsules. A Gemini browser landed on a handheld game console. The Old Computer Challenge brought the #permacomputing and #smolnet communities together. Protocol design debates (SMTP vs #Gemini extensibility, TOFU improvements) show the community is still thinking critically about its own foundations. And the #gopher scene, far from dead, continues to produce practical content and welcome new operators...
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Have you heard of the #SmolNet? I had no idea something like this prevailed to current era.
Its a collection of alternative internet protocols, that are primarily text based. Protocols like Gemini and Gopher, that aim to provide a focused, distraction-free, document-like experience for those with restricted bandwidths or who have reached their limits with modern trends (ads, newsletter windows, cookie policies, etc..)
There are a bunch of clients, but I use
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Taking some time to more rigorously explore the #smolnet today:
- Got a Gem client installed on mobile, in addition to existing desktop stuff
- Browsing through gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/observatory/known-hostsAnyone here have any personal Gem Capsules or other fun things going on?
Here's mine, in need of tlc: gemini://twentytwo.town/~rooney
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"Before search engines, though, existed older, more powerful discovery methods, curated by humans for our benefit; these systems and networks still exist, but they seem hidden from the view of the mainstream web.
Let’s take a look at the secret web, the festival of personal expression and idea sharing happening below the surface, out of the mainstream view, spearheaded by people like you and me."
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I've worked on snurl a lot over the last few days. Some updates:
- The CLI has flags for redirects and input now.
- Logging!
- WolfSSL is partially implemented. I need to compile a custom version of it for it to fully work.https://codeberg.org/liberty/snurl/
Next on the list:
- Completing WolfSSL support
- Getting Zig's built-in TLS library workingThen I think I'll be ready for a first release!
There is still more to work on, but considering my next school quarter is starting on Monday, that's probably all I'm going to be able to do for now.
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Working on a little tool for fetching pages on the smolnet https://codeberg.org/liberty/snurl/
It currently supports Gopher, Spartan, and Finger, with Gemini in the works.
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"The first thing to do is to install a Gemini client. A Gemini client is like a web browser, except instead of browsing the web, it browses Geminispace. There are at least a couple of Gemini clients available for most platforms..."
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"One of the biggest draws of the #IndieWeb for me is the decentralization of the Internet. The entire point is to stop the erosion of the Internet from being a handful of bad-faith, extractive corporate social media platforms.
But at the end of the day, we're still all using the same Internet, aren't we? The same handful of browsers, the same frameworks and engines. We can take this a step further, and we can interface with the Internet in ways that don't involve going to websites that start with https://"
https://brennan.day/gemini-gophers-and-fingers-oh-my-alternative-internets-beyond-https/
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#audiomo day 4 - #rss
#smolnet (can’t fix posts in Bluesky)https://bsky.app/profile/booyaatheelder.bsky.social/post/3mni5nmpjyc2d
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You can also do this with (the more powerful) XSLT styling.
I.e., the HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type XHTML (as a document) without XLST — while letting you add style using XLST, and even change it (without editing the XHTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.xsl>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.xsl>; rel=stylesheet
(Note, URLs above should have URL scheme.)
#html #http #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb #xsl #xslt
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Cross posting from BlueSky my contribution to #audiomo day 1 https://bsky.app/profile/booyaatheelder.bsky.social/post/3mna3okhjhc2c #smolnet
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The HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type HTML (as a document) without CSS — while letting you add style using CSS, and even change it (without editing the HTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=stylesheet
(Note, URLs above should have URL scheme.)
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The Finger Protocol seems to have had an alternative unofficial TCP-port, other than TCP-port 79.
TCP-port 2003
It was used by GNU cfinger.
TCP-port 2003 would not typically require 'root' privileges — in systems that require 'root' privileges for TCP-ports less-than 1024.
#FingerProtocol #Fingerverse #FingerHole #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb
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Advice for people on the #smolnet.
I’ve seen far too many people complaining they have no feedback about their writing but I simply cannot reach them!
- Put an email contact in an obvious place. Too often, it feels like a quest to find your email.
- Be sure that your email works. No, seriously. I’ve several cases of server returning an error.
- If you don’t want to receive emails, write it explicitely so I don’t spend my time looking for your address.
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#Pollux server is back online after a power outage!
- gemini://pollux.casa/
- https://pollux.casa/
- https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/
